How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film, which itself is loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. Produced by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Marc Platt Productions, the film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated films. It stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Peter Serafinowicz, and Nick Frost, with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast from the animated films. Plans for a live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon were announced in February 2023, with DeBlois returning to write, direct, and produce after previously spearheading the animated trilogy. John Powell, who also worked on the trilogy, additionally returned to compose the score for the film. Thames and Parker joined the cast in May 2023, with additional casting announced in January 2024. Filming began later that month in Belfast, Northern Ireland and wrapped in May. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film. How to Train Your Dragon premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released by Universal in the United States on June 13. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has been commercially successful, grossing $636.2 million worldwide and becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2025, the highest-grossing film of the franchise and the second-highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid of all time. A sequel based on the second film in the trilogy is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.